Teaching Material for Teaching Hindi Language

Teaching a foreign Language has been considered a difficult task to accomplish  because of different
situations individuals are exposed in such a process.

I have selected teaching material to provide quality of instructions for my Hindi teaching classes
after keeping in mind my final teaching goals and expectations, students’ motivation and expectations
and meeting the ACTFL’s 5Cs’ benchmarks. But I can not depend on one single source, and I used many
sources to meet the target. I have divided them in two broad headings.

I.   TEXT BASED TEACHING MATERIAL

II.    WEB BASED TEACHING MATERIAL

I. TEXT BASED TEACHING MATERIAL

Teacher’s Lessons

• I have designed my own Standards- Based Thematic Units, developed articulated sub-themes,
  backward design and Scaffolding for teaching each class.

Books

• Rupert Snell, Get Started in Hindi, Specially created for Absolute Beginners.( 2010)
  ISBN  978 – 0 –  07 – 173944 – 3, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
• Sarita Mehta,  Aao Hindi Sikhen, Let us Learn Hindi, Swarn Publishers. India
• S. K.. Verma. The Oxford English – Hindi Dictionary,
• R . S . McGregor, The Oxford Hindi – English Dictionary

Authentic Material

• News Papers, Magazines and Literature
• Maps, Mails and other documents
  – Entertainment and Travel  Documents
  –  Consumer Education  Through Brochures
  – Communicating With Post cards and Letters.
• Texts for Academic and Business Settings
• Food: Recipes, Menus
• Clothes:  Indian Dresses
• Teaching Games: Ludo, Blocks, Index Cards, Word-building
• Other Material: Toys, statues, Symbols, Jewellery,  and culture related Items.

II.  WEB BASED TEACHING MATERIAL
Website Links: Web-based reading and listening and Visual

Language Related

• Devnagari script:
  http://www.avashy.com/hindiscripttutor.htm   http://hindigym.com/worksheets/more/partsOfFace.php
  Fun worksheets) http://www.hindigym.com/
  Alphabet: http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/jishnu/101/default.asp
• A collection of Hindi and Urdu related links : http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/hindilinks.html
• Hindi site from Syracuse University for Beginning and Intermediate level: alphabet, basic vocabulary,
  dialogues, culture and traditions information : http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/jishnu/hindi.asp
• Hindi site from the University of Pennsylvania for Beginning and Intermediate level: alphabet and
  sounds, video clips and dialogues with grammar explanation and glossary :
  http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/hindi/
• A Door into Hindi (http://www.ncsu.edu/project/hindi_lessons/
• Introduction to Hindi writing
  Audio Lessons: http://philae.sas.upenn.edu/Hindi/hindi.html
• Mellon Project – providing digitized texts in Hindi from Premchand and Galib:
  http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pehook/mindex.html
• http://hindiurduflagship.org/resources/learning-teaching/glossaries-alive/
• On Line Course from India (No Tuition fee)  http://lilappp.cdac.in/

Web Dictionary

• English Hindi Dictionary “ Shabdkosh” http://www.shabdkosh.com/
• Hindi English Dictionary http://dict.hinkhoj.com/
•  Learn Hindi Grammar and Vocabulary : http://mylanguages.org/learn_hindi.php
• Transliteration  http://www.google.com/transliterate/
• Down load Hindi fonts : Susha Hindi fonts:
  http://www.hindinest.com/hindifonts/hindifonts.htm

General Links

• A comprehensive collection of links on South history, literature and language:
  http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/area/sarai/morningsidemix.html
• Information on India by the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India:
  http://www.indiagov.org/
• Asian Art : http://www.asianart.com/index.html
• Center for South Asia, University of Texas : http://link.lanic.utexas.edu/asnic/
• South Asia Resource Access on the Internet
  http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/area/sarai/
• Kids’ stories : http://www.indolink.com/Kidz/index.html
•  http://devanaagarii.net/hi/

Newspapers &  Magazines
Authentic Language Material:

• Webdunia : http://www.webdunia.com
• Aaj Tak : http://www.aajtak.com
• BBC : http://www.bbc.co.uk/hindi
• Abhivyakti : http://www.abhivyakti-hindi.org/kahaniyan/index.htm
• Boloji : http://www.boloji.com
• Anubhuti : http://www.anubhuti-hindi.org

Film Songs

• Learning Counting : Ek,do ,teen, char http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwycoX_aHmc
• Learn days of week: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqcuByLrz5Q
• Verbs in Past Tense and comparison (Jaise): Ek Ladaki ko dekha
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqcuByLrz5Q
• Use of Present past and Future Tense: Sau saal pahle
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSWnBBm-dUE